It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in a corporate plutocracy.
I had to switch plans a couple of years ago and investigated a lot of options
Your best bet is prepaid, most of them don’t have that bullshit.
I went with AT&T prepaid because it included data in Mexico in Canada, I pay $100 for 3 months of service (there’s also $300 for 12mo), you can get prepaid cards discounted at target most of the time so you don’t pay full price and it’s supposed to be 8GB only but I have been over that data so many times and they never throttle down my speed
Google Fi. Not only do you get to hotspot, but you can order a free data-only SIM to share your data plan across multiple devices (like a tablet)
Those 2 things are the only reason I’ve stuck with Fi for his long. The deprioritization at crowded events is pretty annoying sometimes.
I worked for a mobile device manufacturer for a few years and prepaid plans combined with an unlocked phone are definitely the most cost effective choice. You get several gigabytes of mobile data for about $25-30/month and combined with a lowish end device (~$300), I spend less in an upgrade year than some pay per month for their postpaid phone service with the financed phone.
I had one lady once send me her >$1000 monthly Verizon bill because she thought that would work for a receipt. It was about 20 pages long, had 4 financed devices with 5 lines. It was an insane window into how some people live